Munster schoolgirls senior cup: Four in a row for Crescent Comprehensive

Reigning All-Ireland champions are back in semi-finals after win over Mount Mercy

Crescent Comprehensive College are Munster schoolgirls senior cup winners. Photograph: Inpho
Crescent Comprehensive College are Munster schoolgirls senior cup winners. Photograph: Inpho

Crescent College Comprehensive 0 Mount Mercy College, Cork 0

(Crescent won 3-0 on penalties aet)

Goalkeeper Niamh Keyes saved three penalties for Crescent Comprehensive who won the Munster schoolgirls senior cup for a fourth year in a row at Villiers, Limerick, on Friday.

The win puts Crescent back in the semi-finals of the All-Ireland Kate Russell Shield which they won last year.

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Neither side could manage a goal in normal or extra time and it was decided in a penalty shoot-out.

Scorers for Crescent were Aebfhinn Bourke, Niamh O’Keeffe and the captain, Aisling Horan.

Crescent squad: N Keyes, M Horan, A Horan, A Ryan, N O'Keeffe, A Bourke, J Kirby, B Murphy, C Murphy, M O'Sullivan, J Clein, C Phelan, A Birdthistle, M Doran, C Cowhey, E Carew, O Curtin, A Maher.

Mount Mercy squad: E Buckley, G Cowhig, A Martin, J Poland, J Coleman, E Cripps, N Lucey, G French, E Hughes, K O'Halloran, M O'Sullivan, A O'Farrell, S O'Flynn, E O'Donoughue, S Murphy, J Murphy, S Lowe, S McCarthy.